Sharon Osbourne missed out on the unveiling of a statue of her late husband, Ozzy Osbourne, due to an “unexpected” trip to the hospital.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t be at Hellfest for the unveiling of Ozzy’s statue. Unfortunately I had an unexpected trip to the hospital earlier in the week,” Sharon, 73, shared via Instagram on Thursday, June 18. “A big thank you Olivier Garnier, Ben Barbaud and everyone at Hellfest. Special thank you to @philippe_pasqua_officiel for the absolutely stunning statue!”
The six-meter-tall “Prince of Darkness” statue — which, as Sharon mentioned, was designed by French contemporary artist Philippe Pasqua — was unveiled this week at the Clisson, France, open-air heavy metal music festival. The stone statue is engraved with Ozzy’s concert slogan, “Let the madness begin.”
Hellfest has a track record of constructing elaborate tributes to fallen rock heroes, as organizers built a similarly massive statue in honor of late Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister in 2022. (Kilmister died at age 70 in December 2015 following a battle with prostate cancer.)
Sharon has not elaborated further on what ailment landed her in the hospital.
The “Prince of Darkness” statue at Hellfest is one of several ways that the Osbournes are honoring the life and legacy of the late Ozzy, who died at age 76 in July 2025. (His cause of death was confirmed to be related to cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease, which he was diagnosed with in 2019.)
Sharon and son Jack Osbourne recently announced work has begun on the creation of an AI-generated Ozzy Osbourne avatar. Per Rolling Stone, Sharon and Jack are partnering with Hyperreal and Proto Hologram on an AI-powered avatar that has “the digital DNA of Ozzy Osbourne, voice, image [and] movement.”
“Elvis died 50 years ago, and everybody knows Elvis,” Sharon said at the Las Vegas launch in May. “I just want that for Ozzy.”
Meanwhile, Jack’s sister Kelly Osbourne recently shared exclusively with Us Weekly at the Mind x The Ricky Hatton Foundation charity auction that she has special plans to commemorate her first Father’s Day without Ozzy.
“Me and my brother Louis are going to do something special for my dad this weekend,” she confirmed to Us on Thursday.
(Ozzy was the father of six. He shared Elliot, Jessica and Louis with his first wife Thelma Riley and later welcomed Aimee, Kelly, and Jack during his second marriage to Sharon.)
Asked how she was coping with the loss of her dad, Kelly told Us, “I’m getting a little bit better every day. The pain will never go away, and I’ll never be the person I was before he died again. But I’m getting to know the new me.”
The Osbournes announced Ozzy’s death on July 22, 2025, just 17 days after he’d performed his final Back to the Beginning concert in Birmingham, England.
“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” they shared at the time. “He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.”
Ozzy was laid to rest in his hometown of Birmingham on July 30, 2025.
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